Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC)
Nagoya, Japan
2008, 2nd-4th July

The 1st International Workshop on
Theoretical Calculation of ELNES and XANES
TEX2008
(Nagoya Japan, 2nd-4th July 2008)

*Organizers
Isao Tanaka (Kyoto Univ. and JFCC)
Teruyasu Mizoguchi (Univ. Tokyo)
Tomoyuki Yamamoto (Waseda Univ.)
Yuichi Ikuhara (Univ. Tokyo and JFCC)
Tsukasa Hirayama (JFCC)
Shunsuke Muto (Nagoya Univ.)

*Scope of TEX2008
The three-day workshop, to be held as a satellite meeting of AMTC1, is going to provide an excellent opportunity to learn the state-of-the-art computational techniques for quantitative analysis and interpretation of ELNES and XANES. Profound discussion and exchanges in ideas are also envisaged. Invited and contributed talks by leading-edge scientists world-wide are planned on the 1st day, which is followed by the tutorial session of a few computer programs on the 2nd and 3rd day.

Both electron energy loss near edge structure (ELNES) and X-ray absorption near edge structures (XANES) are important tools in materials science offering information on local environment of selected elements not only in crystals but also in amorphous materials. Recent technological progress enables measurements of XANES of ppm-level dopants using modern synchrotron facilities. Combined with transmission electron microscopy, ELNES can be used to analyze the local structures with subnanometer spatial resolution. First principles methods to reproduce and interpret the spectra have been established just recently. The workshop is planned to demonstrate the capability of the state-of-the-art techniques and also to make profound discussion among scientists worldwide.

*Invited Speakers
Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (Leoben, Austria) : FLAPW+BSE
Peter Blaha (Wien, Austria) : WIEN2k
Gianluigi Botton (McMaster, Canada) : Theory + experiment
Wai Yim Ching (UMKC, USA) : OLCAO
Frank de Groot (Utrecht, Netherlands) : TT Multiplet
Keisuke Hatada (LNF-INFN, Italy) : Full Potential Multiple Scattering
Hidekazu Ikeno (Kyoto, Japan) : DFT+CI
Teruyasu Mizoguchi (Tokyo, Japan) : Theory + experiment
Chris J. Pickard (St. Andrews, Scotland) : CASTEP
John Rehr (Washington, USA) : FEFF
Isao Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan) : Introduction
Kazuyoshi Tatsumi (Nagoya, Japan) : Theory + experiment
Tomoyuki Yamamoto (Waseda, Japan) : Theory + experiment
Jun Yuan (York, UK) : Theory + experiment

*Tutorial Sessions
July 3rd
Peter Blaha : WIEN2k
Chris J. Pickard : CASTEP
John Rehr : FEFF

July 4th
Frank de Groot : TT-Multiplet
Hidekazu Ikeno : DFT-CI

*Proceedings
We plan to make proceedings of the workshop to be published as a special issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (JPCM). Typical page length we expect is 8-10 printed pages. Note that JPCM changes the page format from B5 size with a single column to A4 size with a double column since 2008.
The deadline of the submission of the proceeding paper is 5 August 2008, just a month after the workshop. All papers will be refereed in accordance with the guidelines of JPCM. We expect to launch the special issue in the early 2009.

*Call for Poster Papers
Participants are encouraged to present their recent research at a poster session of the symposium. One page abstracts should be submitted before 31 May, 2008 . Please send your abstract in PDF format to tex2008@sigma.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp. (Abstract format)

*Important Dates
Abstract submission : May 31, 2008
Registration : June 20, 2008
AMTC1 : June 29 and 30, 2008
TEX2008 : July 2-4, 2008

*Registration Fee
Free

*Accommodation
Please refer to the web page of AMTC1 for accommodations.
(URL:http://jecs.org/amtc1)

*Access
TEX2008 will be held at Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), Nagoya Japan. Please refer to the JFCC web page for access.
(URL: http://www.jfcc.or.jp/en/index.html)

*Requests for further information:
Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Univ. Tokyo
e-mail: tex2008@sigma.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp